Controlling Costs and Changing Patient Care?: The Role of Utilization Management

Utilization management brings patient-level and system-level concerns together and represents a new nexus of relations among pagers, practitioners, hospitals, and patients. This report bears both on generic issues of knowledge and values, and on issues specific to current organizations and procedures for influencing patient care decisions. For private and public policymakers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.